Acting · San Bernardino, California, USA · Born January 30, 1930
Eugene Allen Hackman (January 30, 1930 – c. February 18, 2025) was an American actor. Hackman made his credited film debut in the drama Lilith (1964). He later won two Academy Awards, his first for Best Actor for his role as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in William Friedkin's action thriller The French Connection (1971) and his second for Best Supporting Actor for playing a sheriff in Clint Eastwood's Western Unforgiven (1992). He was Oscar-nominated for playing Buck Barrow in the crime drama Bonnie and Clyde (1967), a college professor in the drama I Never Sang for My Father (1970), and an FBI agent in the historical drama Mississippi Burning (1988).
MovieBreakdown: 1975
2025
as (archive footage)
MovieThe Last Days of Gene Hackman: ABC News Special
2025
as Self (archive footage)
MovieRemembering Gene Wilder
2024
as Self (archive footage)
TVThe Playboy Murders
2023
as Self (archive footage)
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
2021
as Self (archive footage)
MovieSacheen: Breaking the Silence
2019
as Self (archive footage)
MoviePattern Recognition
2017
as Self (archive footage)
MovieWe, the Marines
2017
as Self - Narrator (voice)
MovieThe Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima
2016
as Self - Narrator
MovieElectric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
2014
as Lex Luthor (archive footage) (uncredited)
MovieEastwood Directs: The Untold Story
2013
as Self
MovieI Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009
as Self
MovieRevolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
2008
as Self
TVDiners, Drive-Ins and Dives
2007
as Self
TVAmerica's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
2006
as Self - Narrator (voice)
MovieSuperman II: The Richard Donner Cut
2006
as Lex Luthor
MovieShipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage
2005
as Narrator (voice)
MovieWelcome to Mooseport
2004
as Monroe Cole
MovieImaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
2004
as Narrator
MovieRunaway Jury
2003
as Rankin Fitch
MoviePage to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
2002
as Self
MovieEastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
2002
as Self
MovieAll on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
2002
as Self
MovieOnce Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
2001
as Lex Luthor (archive footage)
MovieWith the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson
2001
as Self
MovieBehind Enemy Lines
2001
as Admiral Leslie Reigart, Commander Adriatic Battle Group
MovieHeist
2001
as Joe Moore
MovieThe Royal Tenenbaums
2001
as Royal Tenenbaum
MovieMaking the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection
2001
as Self
MovieWill Shuster's Zozobra™ de Santa Fe
2001
as Himself/Narrator
MovieHeroes of Iwo Jima
2001
as Self - Host/Narrator
MovieTaking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'
2001
as Self
MovieMaking 'Superman': Filming the Legend
2001
as Self
MovieHeartbreakers
2001
as William B. Tensy
MovieThe Mexican
2001
as Arnold Margolese
MovieClint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
2000
as Self
MovieUnder Suspicion
2000
as Henry Hearst
MovieThe Replacements
2000
as Jimmy McGinty
MovieThe Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'
2000
as Self
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
1999
as Narrator (voice)
TVThe Directors
1999
as Self
MovieEnemy of the State
1998
as Brill
MovieAntz
1998
as General Mandible (voice)
MovieTwilight
1998
as Jack Ames
MovieSports on the Silver Screen
1997
as Self (archive footage)
MovieAbsolute Power
1997
as President Richmond
MovieThe Chamber
1996
as Sam Cayhall
MovieExtreme Measures
1996
as Dr. Lawrence Myrick
MovieThe Birdcage
1996
as Senator Kevin Keeley
MovieMaking Frankensense of Young Frankenstein
1996
as Blind Man (archive footage)
MovieGet Shorty
1995
as Harry Zimm
MovieCrimson Tide
1995
as Captain Franklin "Frank" Ramsey
MovieThe Quick and the Dead
1995
as Herod
MovieThe Making of 'Crimson Tide'
1995
as Self
MovieClint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso
1994
as Self
TVInside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self
MovieShurtleff on Acting
1994
as Self
MovieWyatt Earp
1994
as Nicholas Earp
MovieGeronimo: An American Legend
1993
as Brig. Gen. George Crook
MovieThe Firm
1993
as Avery Tolar
MovieEarth and the American Dream
1992
as Reader (voice)
MovieEastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
1992
as Self
MovieUnforgiven
1992
as 'Little' Bill Daggett
MovieCompany Business
1991
as Sam Boyd
MovieClass Action
1991
as Jedediah Tucker Ward
MovieNarrow Margin
1990
as Robert Caulfield
MoviePostcards from the Edge
1990
as Lowell Kolchek
MovieLoose Cannons
1990
as MacArthur Stern
MovieThe Package
1989
as Sgt. Johnny Gallagher
MovieMississippi Burning
1988
as Agent Rupert Anderson
MovieFull Moon in Blue Water
1988
as Floyd
MovieAnother Woman
1988
as Larry
MovieBat★21
1988
as Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton
MovieSplit Decisions
1988
as Dan McGuinn
MovieNo Way Out
1987
as Defense Secretary David Brice
MovieSuperman IV: The Quest for Peace
1987
as Lex Luthor
MovieHoosiers
1986
as Norman Dale
TVAmerican Masters
1986
as Self
MoviePower
1986
as Wilfred Buckley
MovieTarget
1985
as Walter Lloyd
MovieTwice in a Lifetime
1985
as Harry MacKenzie
TVLarry King Live
1985
as Self
MovieUncommon Valor
1983
as Col. Cal Rhodes
MovieTwo of a Kind
1983
as God (voice) (uncredited)
MovieMisunderstood
1983
as Ned Rawley
MovieUnder Fire
1983
as Alex Grazier
MovieThe Making of 'Superman II'
1983
as Self
MovieEureka
1983
as Jack McCann
MovieThe Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
1982
as Self
MovieReds
1981
as Pete van Wherry
TVEntertainment Tonight
1981
as Self
MovieAll Night Long
1981
as George Dupler
MovieSuperman II
1980
as Lex Luthor
MovieSuperman
1978
as Lex Luthor
MovieFormula 1 - Speed fever
1978
as Self
TVThe South Bank Show
1978
as Self
TVCiné regards
1978
as Self
MovieMarch or Die
1977
as Major William Sherman Foster
TVThe Hollywood Greats
1977
MovieA Bridge Too Far
1977
as Maj. Gen. Stanislaw F. Sosabowski
MovieThe Domino Principle
1977
as Tucker
MovieLucky Lady
1975
as Kibby
MovieBite the Bullet
1975
as Sam Clayton
MovieNight Moves
1975
as Harry Moseby
MovieFrench Connection II
1975
as "Popeye" Doyle
MovieYoung Frankenstein
1974
as Blindman
TVDinah!
1974
as Self
MovieZandy's Bride
1974
as Zandy Allen
MovieThe Conversation
1974
as Harry Caul
MovieScarecrow
1973
as Max Millan
TVThe American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
as Self
MovieOn the Road with: Scarecrow
1973
as Self
MovieThe Poseidon Adventure
1972
as Reverend Scott
MoviePrime Cut
1972
as Mary Ann
MovieCisco Pike
1972
as Officer Leo Holland
Film '72
1971
as Self
MovieThe French Connection
1971
as Jimmy Doyle
MovieThe Hunting Party
1971
as Brandt Ruger
V.I.P. Schaukel
1971
as Self
MovieDoctors' Wives
1971
as Dave Randolph
MovieI Never Sang for My Father
1970
as Gene Garrison
MovieMarooned
1969
as Buzz Lloyd
MovieDownhill Racer
1969
as Eugene Claire
MovieThe Gypsy Moths
1969
as Joe Browdy
MovieRiot
1969
as Red Fraker
MovieThe Sky Divers
1969
as Self
MovieShadow on the Land
1968
as Rev. Thomas Davis
MovieThe Split
1968
as Lt. Walter Brill
TVRowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968
as Self
MovieBanning
1967
as Tommy Del Gaddo
MovieBonnie and Clyde
1967
as Buck Barrow
MovieA Covenant with Death
1967
as Harmsworth
MovieFirst to Fight
1967
as Sergeant Tweed
TVThe Invaders
1967
as Tom Jessup
CBS Playhouse
1966
as Ned
MovieHawaii
1966
as John Whipple
TVHawk
1966
TVThe F.B.I.
1965
as Herb Kenyon
TVThe Trials of O'Brien
1965
as Roger Nathan
MovieLilith
1964
as Norman
TVEast Side/West Side
1963
TVThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
TVThe Merv Griffin Show
1962
as Self
TVThe Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self
TVThe DuPont Show of the Week
1961
as Douglas McCann
TVThe Defenders
1961
as Stanley McGuirk
MovieMad Dog Coll
1961
as Cop (uncredited)
TVTallahassee 7000
1961
as Joe Lawson
TVRoute 66
1960
as Motorist
TVNaked City
1958
as Mr. Jasper
TVThe United States Steel Hour
1953
TVThe Oscars
1953
as Self
TVGolden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee
